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6¹ DIARRA touched the ball through a crowd of players but the Wolves 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right. 8¹ TZOLIS headed wide. 9¹ An inswinging corner was nodded into the arms of the 'keeper by BONNY. 10¹ A penalty box scramble resulted in YAMAL knocking the ball wide. 10¹ A useful ball from KOVACIC on the left fell to NUNO MENDES who mishit his shot over the bar. 12¹ GOAL!! A deep cross by NICO WILLIAMS was met by KOVACIC who steamed in to score. (1-0 Wolves) 15¹ A weak strike from OTÁVIO trickled agonisingly wide. 15¹ A brilliant strike from ARAUJO was dealt with by a fine stop from SOMMER. 24¹ KJÆRGAARD shot wide. 28¹ A good effort from VLAHOVIC scraped the woodwork. 29¹ D'URSO cautions COATES. 30¹ GOAL!! A foul on KOVACIC inside the area gave Wolves a penalty which VLAHOVIC tucked away. (2-0 Wolves) 32¹ HORTA waltzed away from NUNO MENDES and stabbed a poor shot well wide. 35¹ GOAL!! On the right wing TZOLIS collected a defender's clearance and hit it through the penalty area for EMERSON PALMIERI to slip it into the back of the net. (2-1 Wolves) 42¹ EKITIKÉ booked for an off-the-ball incident. 46¹ GOAL!! A corner flew into the penalty box and OTÁVIO fumbled the ball into his own net. (3-1 Wolves) 2² GOAL!! An imaginative TAPSOBA played a great ball down the left to NICO WILLIAMS who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (4-1 Wolves) 6² KJÆRGAARD fired a right foot shot over from twenty yards out. 11² EKITIKÉ headed the ball wide from the edge of the box. 31² A free-kick from NUNO MENDES floated inches wide. 39² KOVACIC knocked the ball to YAMAL who touched it wide. 42² Uncertainty in the Port Vale defence enabled VLAHOVIC to volley the ball just beyond the far post.

Port Vale   League position: 20 Home league form: LL-- Overall league form: LLLL---- Formation: 4-4-2

Line-ups PAU LÓPEZ Sabata 5½ 1 5  Yann SOMMER Julián ARAUJO 8  2 7  Rico LEWIS (c)EMERSON PALMIERI dos Santos 8  3 6  NUNO Alexandre MENDES(f) Maurits KJÆRGAARD 6½ 4 7  Jonathan TAH OTÁVIO Ataide 7½ 5 6  Edmond TAPSOBA Sebastián COATES 7  6 6½ Francesco ACERBI Ricardo HORTA 8½ 7 6½ NICO WILLIAMS(c) Christos TZOLIS 7  8 6  DOUGLAS LUIZ Soares (p)Ange-Yoan BONNY 7  9 7½ Dusan VLAHOVIC(p) (f)Habib DIARRA 6½ 10 6½ Mateo KOVACIC Hugo EKITIKÉ 6  11 6  Lamine YAMAL Scott Smillie Manager Lee AVRAMOVIC Joel ORDOÑEZ    12    Jean-Clair TODIBO JOAN GARCÍA Pons    13    David DE GEA Jon ROWE    14    GAVI Eren DINKÇI    15    Reggie WALSH Lucas STASSIN    16    Sergiño DEST

Wolves   League position: 8 Away league form: LW-- Overall league form: XLWW---- Formation: 5-2-3

Statistics

Port Vale 1 Wolves 4 (Half-time: 1-3, Attendance: 33,274, Stadium: Vale Park, Referee: Andy D'Urso 6) Emerson Palmieri 35¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Kovacic 12¹, Vlahovic 30¹ (pen), Otávio 46¹ (og), Nico Williams 2²         Coates 29¹, Ekitiké 42¹   5 13 10 18 9 17 7 6 10 10 17 16 6 2 44% 56% ¶ Man of the match: Ricardo Horta ¶